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To: soup who wrote (23694)	3/26/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

PS> Am having marginal success selling Tangerine iMacs by telling customers that they're really copper-colored* but Apple mandated a fruity name. :)* soup! Well, I went over and tweaked a friend's new blueberry the other day, and I'll be darned if it didn't look almost exactly like bondi. I have yet to see any of the other colors in person, but I'm lovin' my tangerine more every time I look at it. With the way the other flavors are selling, you'll be able to market tang simply by telling people it'll be a collector's item before any of the others! GO AAPL! Mark

To: soup who wrote (23694)	3/30/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Had a customer tell me he had OSX running on a G3 with 512MB RAM: "I'm running 8.5/Blue Box on a RAM Disk. It flies! It's the first time in years that a MacOS has got me smiling from ear-to-ear!" If I understand correctly, Mac OS X (Q4 1999?) will be a consumer OS and look much like Mac OS 8.x does today, but with a new kernel and all the abilities a modern operating system should have, such as preemptive multitasking, support for multiple processors, protected memory, etc. It will also include the ability to get to a command line, but that will not be its primary interface. Mac OS X Server's final release version (also Q4 1999?) will also look much like Mac OS X, but will have the many extra features needed for a complete server OS. It differs from the current release of OS X Server in many ways, including the interface and kernel -- it's essentially a release to fulfill the promise of Rhapsody and appease those who've waited for it. Does this jive with what we know so far, or am I way off? Can anyone fill in the roadmap for me a bit more? Thanks!